What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager, Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium position at University of Texas System?
03/17/2025
Salary commensurate with experience
40 hours weekly
A resume and letter of interest is required to apply. Candidates under final consideration will also be required to submit professional references, college degree information, and employment history to an online third-party vendor.
For more than 140 years, The University of Texas System has improved the lives of Texans - and people all over the world - through education, health care, and research. The System consists of nine academic institutions, five health institutions, and The University of Texas System Administration. The institutions of the UT System employ more than 116,000 faculty, health care professionals, researchers, support staff, and student workers.
The UT System Administration is primarily based in Austin, Texas. It supports the missions of the System's fourteen institutions by providing financial, legal, planning, purchasing, government relations, communications, development, and other central services. Serving a growing state, the UT System Administration strives to provide a welcoming, supportive work environment that embraces different perspectives - not only because it enables the organization to be stronger, creative, and thoughtful, but because it is the right thing to do. To that end, UT System Administration embraces state laws on military and former foster children employment preferences.
To track implementation and impact of multiple projects across 12 Health Related Institutions (HRIs) providing services as part of the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC).
- Provides oversight on multiple concurrent projects of varying size, serving as a liaison to project/program management staff at HRIs and other Consortium organizations. Ensures collaboration with key functional partners in the implementation of initiatives.
- Requests, collects, and reviews information, including status and financial reports, from HRIs for the projects/programs funded by the TCMHCC.
- Identifies trends based on project/program reporting and performance metrics, highlighting potential issues/barriers and best practices; coordinates resolution activities.
- Creates, monitors, and modifies project plans, tracking all aspects of initiatives, including interdependencies, milestones, risks, issues, lessons learned, communications, project resources, and spending. Regularly updates Senior Program Manager on project statuses.
- Leads and facilitates discussions and meetings with internal and external stakeholders to drive project planning, execution, decision-making, and issue resolution, ensuring projects stay on track. Attends other program meetings as required.
- Produces regular project status reports and other project-/program-related reports as directed by leadership.
- Prepares and delivers presentations related to project/program progress to internal and external stakeholders.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Competence in Microsoft Office applications required.
- Must be self-directed and able to work independently while facilitating the efforts of multiple cross-functional teams.
- Must be organized, capable of rapidly isolating and resolving risks and issues, and have strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be able to work with internal and external staff at varied levels of an organization.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Minimum of 5 years' experience managing projects in a health-related field.
- Master's degree in a health-related field.
- Experience working for a State of Texas government agency.
- Experience working with Project Online, SharePoint, and PowerBI.
- Experience managing projects as an individual contributor.
- Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation
- Uses standard office equipment
- 10% Travel
- Requires occasional evening or weekend hours
The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to a minimum of 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. Participation in TRS is mandatory.
A background check will be conducted on candidates under final consideration. The background check may include any or all of the following: criminal history check, prior employment verification, education verification, professional references check, and motor vehicle records check. Background checks are conducted by third-party vendors. Upon request form the third-party vendor, candidates under final consideration must provide the required information for the background checks to be completed.
The University of Texas System Administration is a federal contractor committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all qualified applicants and employees in all terms and conditions of employment. U. T. System will provide equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state laws.
For information on accommodations for individuals with disabilities, please contact the Office of Talent and Innovation at oti@utsystem.edu.
